Most wild animals are not easy to spot. They are often hidden, camouflaged, or just not around when you are.

But instead of trying to ‘see’ them, what if we try and ‘listen’ to them? After all, animals communicate. For some researchers, all this talking and chattering is gold. They use sounds to find animals that are difficult to observe and also to count them!

Wild Frequencies is a three-part mini-series by Mongabay-India, where wildlife researchers from India share their stories of sounds from the animal world. They decode those wild frequencies for us, one song, one howl, and one chirp at a time.

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Guests: Rohit Chakravarty, Nature Conservation Foundation Isha Bopardikar, IISER Tirupati Bilal Habib, Wildlife Institute of India

Reported and written by Shreya Dasgupta and Kartik Chandramouli; Editing, music, and sound design by Abhijit Shylanath; Episode artwork by Hitesh Sonar; Sound clips by Rohit Chakravarty (NCF), Isha Bopardikar (IISER Tirupati), and Bilal Habib (WII)